Ted Mellors of Bullskin Township is the recipient of the 2006 Public Service Excellence Award at Penn State Fayette.
Mellors serves as the director of Penn State Fayette's Center for Community and Public Safety. Aside from his duties as the director of the center, Mellors also served as the associate director of Continuing Education, as well as the administrative director of Penn State Fayette's American Heart Association's Training Center; constable education training site; and emergency medical service training institute, having held these positions since 1987.
In addition, Mellors' competencies include: EMS instructor-trainer status with the Pennsylvania Department of Health, American Heart Association designated basic cardiac life support regional faculty member, Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency certified instructor and instructor for the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency Act 44 (1994).
Mellors was the project director for a statewide constable education curriculum development project that was awarded the 1998 Distinguished Non-Credit Program Award by the Association for Continuing Higher Education. He also received Best Practices 2002 honors by the U.S. Department of Agriculture Office of Community Development for establishment of a plan to place automatic external defibrillators in strageic parts of Fayette County, a project that included collaboration with Cataldo Corrado and the late Walt Vicinelly. He has administered, coordinated or participated in a multitude of emergeny medical and law enforcement seminars and courses, including the initiation of an annual Non-Lethal, Less-Lethal Weapons Seminar in Fayette County, and developed and participated in the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency's Annual Statewide Crime Prevention Conference in 2002 and 2005.
In 1998, he was the first recipient of the Penn State Fayette Penn Stater of the Quarter Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Campus. He also received the Administrative Excellence Award from Penn State Fayette in 1990 and 2004, and received a Certificate of Special Congressional Recognition for Outstanding Performance in 1998. He received the Southwestern Pennsylvania Emergency Health Services Council, Emergeny Medical Services Institute's Emergency Medical Services Practioner of the Year Award in 2005.
Mellors is a member of the American Society of Law Enforcement Trainers and the International Law Enforcement Educatiors and Trainers Association. He serves as the executive director of the Fayette County Emergency Medical Services Council. He graduated with an associate of arts degree in liberal arts from Westmoreland County Community College and with a bachelor of arts in history from Indiana University of Pennsylvania. He is currently pursuing coursework towards completion of the master's degree in adult education at Penn State. His hobbies include football, traveling and motorcycling.